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			<h1>CARK by The Marc With a C Trio</h1>
			<p>Day 00577: Tuesday, 2016 October 04</p>
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<p>
	Current countdowns:
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<ul>
	<li>15 unfinished weblog entries in <a href="/en/weblog/2016/07-July/">July</a></li>
	<li>13 days until my old domain registrar can no longer counter my charge dispute</li>
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<p>
	Marc With a C is now releasing new album, but the details of the release are kind of strange.
	First of all, the album will only be available for one day.
	Second, it will only be available on cassette.
	Third, it will only be available in one physical store.
	However, it will come with a download code.
	The store takes orders over the telephone for people that don&apos;t live in the area, but obviously, I&apos;m not going to order over a telephone line.
	I&apos;ve contacted the store to see about ordering online, and they asked if I could pay via PayPal.
	I agreed to do that, an now, the representative that I talked to is waiting to hear back from their online sales manager.
	Hopefully, this will work out.
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<p>
	I finished up my discussion posts for the week:
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	Humans are very well able to compensate and adapt to different climates well.
	That isn&apos;t the problem.
	The problem is when different climates are near one another.
	When your neighbors are in the same climate, sharing knowledge that you&apos;ve learned about how to survive in your own climate won&apos;t help your neighbors, so your neigh have to learn and adapt separately.
	On the other hand, when your neighbors share the same climate as you do, you can share knowledge, so you don&apos;t have to come up with all of the survival techniques yourself, and nor do they.
	This frees you both up to instead find better ways of doing things.
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	Our greatest strength as a species is our ability to share knowledge with one another, including neighboring communities and past and future generations.
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<p>
	Your thoughts on taking money from space programs and using it to fund global infrastructure projects to lift people from poverty are interesting.
	I would agree with you that it&apos;s a good idea if there weren&apos;t people living in vast luxury with more money than they can possibly spend.
	I think that instead of shutting down space programs, we need to raise the taxes on the most wealthy people and corporations, using that money to help lift developing countries from poverty.
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	Wow, it sounds like Zidisha is helping people a lot! Fifty percent interest is far too much to ask, especially from people in a poverty-stricken country.
	It&apos;s great to hear that organizations such as Zidisha are able to lend money with an interest rate that&apos;s a tenth of that.
	It&apos;s also great to hear that the interest that they do charge goes toward keeping their organization running and providing more small-interest loans.
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	The orientation of the continent isn&apos;t responsible for the mild weather.
	Instead, it&apos;s responsible for the larger, fewer climate zones.
	Mild weather would certainly make development easier, but it&apos;s unrelated to the direction that the continent lies.
	The mild climate would be more likely caused by the latitudinal position of the continent.
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	I&apos;ve asked for support in the past, but that never really helped.
</p>
<p>
	I think that my mother&apos;s new, supportive attitude was brought on by a couple of factors.
	First, their recent employment has been difficult.
	Previously, my mother was unemployed, so they had a lot of free time.
	I think that they expected me to somehow have just as much free time.
	Now though, they see how exhausting life can be, so they might have a bit more empathy.
	It&apos;s not just with me, either.
	My mother seems to be a softer person than they once were.
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	Second, we&apos;ve been going through a difficult moving process.
	I&apos;ve worked myself to the point of exhaustion, and my mother could see that.
	They can see that I&apos;m honestly trying to make things work, and though they berate me, I think that they are starting to see that their frustration with me is ungrounded.
	I&apos;m doing what I can, and I can&apos;t do what I can&apos;t do.
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	I try to be as honest as I can.
	I even keep my journal in public view online partially for that purpose: &lt;https://y.st./en/weblog/&gt;.
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<p>
	Yeah, my mother wanted grandchildren and my grandparents (especially my paternal-side grandmother) wanted great grandchildren.
	Last that I checked, my mother was convinced that I&apos;m not asexual, and that I only think that I am due to a mental condition.
	I highly doubt that I have that mental condition, but even if I did and my asexuality was caused by it, it wouldn&apos;t in any way mean that I&apos;m not asexual.
	My paternal-side grandmother was convinced that I "just hadn&apos;t met the right girl yet" up until the day that they died.
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	It&apos;s funny though, people that want you to have children seem to believe that telling someone not to have children is an insult.
	My mother once told one of my siblings not to have children after my mother had argued with them about how they chose to live their life.
	Like me, they have no intention of having children, and when they expressed this, my mother got highly defensive.
	They&apos;d pretty much just agreed with my mother that they shouldn&apos;t have children and my mother took that as an attack!
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	I agree, if we&apos;re going to educate people to be decent, sharing people, the lessons taught in school are going to have to change.
	I&apos;m not sure if people are the selfish monsters that they are because they just naturally are or because they are trained to be, but I like to think that the way that they are raised and taught has a big influence.
	You know, the sad part is that the whole world would be better off if the whole world cared about what they were doing to others.
	For example, our technology would be so much more advanced right now if instead of competing and trying to invent the same types of things, people shared their knowledge, blueprints, source code, et cetera.
	The basics have already been invented, and others can build off of that if they were allowed to and had access to the knowledge.
	Once people built off of what exists, others would build off of that, and so on.
	Knowledge hoarding is holding the whole human species back.
	Only the obscenely benefit from the current system.
	Even the moderately wealthy would probably do better if the whole world cared and shared.
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	Yeah, I agree, absence of certain people is often as good as support.
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	It must be nice being able to work from home as well.
	As your own boss, you probably have a more flexible work schedule than most people do, which no doubt helps in making time for everything.
	If something comes up during your normal work time, you can reschedule work for another time and deal with the situation at hand right away.
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	I kind of keep to myself in person too, though I&apos;m not sure that I&apos;d consider myself a private person.
	I&apos;ll talk about just about anything if asked, and I keep a publicly-accessible journal.
	When people do take an interest, they often are surprised by how open and candid I am, actually.
	I find it hard to speak in person though, due to a combination of mainly two factors.
	First, I try not to interrupt people, but in this day and age, it seems like interrupting is the only way to get a word in.
	There&apos;s no space between thoughts to speak in, so I simply don&apos;t speak.
	Second, I absolutely hate being interrupted.
	When interupted, I tend not to finish what I was saying, because if people really cared about what I had to say, they wouldn&apos;t be interrupting while I was saying it.
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	It&apos;s great to hear that you have the support that you need!
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	It must be hard to have to work even as a child and not have access to gratis public education.
	In a lot of ways, I guess that I take for granted what I have in my country.
	It&apos;s not great here, but it is easier here than in some places.
	I certainly see why work would have the largest emphasis though.
	Food and shelter don&apos;t come from nowhere.
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	I&apos;ve also finished my journal assignment for the week:
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<li><a href="/en/coursework/UNIV1001/#Unit6">UNIV 1001: Online Education Strategies</a></li>
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	I&apos;m now completely finished with my schoolwork for the week, so I have tomorrow off from school.
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	<strong>*EDIT <a href="https:/en/weblog/2016/12-December/18.xhtml">Day 00652: Sunday, 2016 December 18</a>*:</strong> I&apos;ve moved &quot;learning journal&quot; content to a separate page now, accessible from the <a href="/en/coursework/">coursework</a> section of the website.
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